Spiritual Warfare

roshan · #1 (**permalink**) 09-06-2008, 10:09 AM

Hi
Firstly I would like to say thank you for taking the time to help me.I am currently possessed by many negative forces.I am flung to the ground,throttled etc..These entities have been pulled out in the pastbut the problem is that my body and mind had been weakened so much that they had jumped back in.There attacks continue for 24 hours.On Monday 8 pm south African timewe are going to try and pull them out again.Could you please ask god to keep all negative forces out and away from me FOR GOOD and please pray for my speedy recovery.could you also god to increase my faith in him (these events hurt it ).It is my earnest desire to become a monk and be gods instrument but these forces have tried everything to stop my spiritual progress.
Thank you so much

ZephThree17 · #2 (**permalink**) 09-06-2008, 03:36 PM

roshon, you say you are from South Africa? I was online searching for information on spiritual warfare and I found the following article by a man from Africa that I hope might be helpful to you. Please remember to always search the Holy Bible scriptures whenever reading or hearing a biblical teaching. I will post this article in two parts. please read all of it.

Before Jesus entered into ministry and spiritual warfare, He went to the wilderness. He did not take Himself. The Spirit of God led Him to the wilderness for 40 days and nights. Doing what? Creating that personal relationship with the Father before ministry and contending with the kingdom of darkness in the spiritual realm. On coming out of the wilderness, the first word that came from His mouth was “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me. Because He has anointed Me to preach the good news, set captives free, to open prison doors, to declare the year of God’s favor.” Why? He had legal ground to work from. He had prepared His heart. He had come as a Son of man therefore He was showing us what to do first, before we can go on in ministry and spiritual warfare. Our personal devotion before God is very essential before God. Seek God. There are things in your life you will only begin to notice through fasting and prayer and humbling yourself before God to search you. Areas like generational bondages, personal character traits that may be so much a part of you that you don’t notice how they bind you. There may be habits, which you have conformed to because of the world system around you and you don’t realize it does not please God because it is so much a part of your life, etc. If you don’t deal with your life, you will get the back-lashes from the enemy. He will ask you “Where did you get legal ground to attack me when you have this and that covenant, or generational curse?” Then he strikes you. Don’t just come against any principality or power where you don’t have authority. Let me give you this hint- on your personal basis, you can come against spirits that are connected to your life. You have the authority to wage spiritual warfare over your personal life against spirits that come through your clan, tribe etc. For instance, you find you are ever angry or have another character trait you cannot explain. That is a spirit you have to come against. After repentance over it, calling the blood of Jesus to cleanse you, after denouncing all covenants and curses attached to it in any way, then you can come against the spirit of anger, lust, etc certain things that come your way. You have legal ground on that. Then after that you ensure that you destroy anything that feeds into that spirit. For instance, if you have a sexually lustful spirit, do not feed it.

The bible says we are not contending with flesh and blood but with rulers, with powers in high places, principalities, and authorities. There are different ruling spirits in the kingdom of the enemy. There are demon gods who rule over the family, others over a village, others over a city, and others over a location, or province and the nations etc. You must know where your legal authority over those powers stops. There are areas of spiritual warfare where you cannot go into in your own authority on a personal basis.
2 Corinthian 103-6 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete. The weapons we fight with are not carnal. They are mighty through God to pull down strongholds. There are different weapons. The body of Christ is not just full of members, but an army. I see ministers God is raising up in this nation to take the gospel to all part of it so that when you are out there you will know how to deal with different demons gods in areas. Before you can do spiritual warfare, you must first deal with your life. You have no authority unless you first have your personal relationship with God. It is not automatic that every Christian will engage in spiritual warfare. We start by telling you to repent, over generational curses, bondages, unforgiveness, woundedness, bitterness etc. because these bind you, so that you cannot contend with the kingdom of the devil when these things still have a claim in your life. We have to break every chain through repentance and the blood of Jesus. There we are setting ourselves free so that the anointing for warfare may come and rest in our life.
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Before Jesus could enter into ministry and spiritual warfare, He went to the wilderness. He did not take Himself. The Spirit of God led Him to the wilderness for 40 days and nights. Doing what? Creating that personal relationship with the Father before ministry and contending with the kingdom of darkness in the spiritual realm. On coming out of the wilderness, the first word that came from His mouth was “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me. Because He has anointed Me to preach the good news, set captives free, to open prison doors, to declare the year of God’s favor.” Why? He had legal ground to work from. He had prepared his heart. You can come against spirits that come over your family, together with your family at your altar. We cannot come against the spirit that rules over the city as one church. We can only come against the spirit that rules over our community. Beyond our village we cannot come against other areas because we have no legal ground. If we want break through we can only do it in our village and then raise up other churches to pray for a wider coverage and greater level of authority. If the other churches don’t pray like your church, then your church will be in trouble. For example, this is Town X. Prayer for any community starts with repentance. We repent on behalf ofTown X. We repent of all curses, incantations that people made over the city, of the name of that city and the power that is behind it, and then repent of the blood sacrifices they made in any way that defiled the land. After that, we cover ourselves with the blood of Jesus, and then we contend with those spirits. God will give us breakthrough. If we are actively prayerful and other churches are not in prayer, there will be communication with the spirit realm. The demons call other spirits and they say “there are people trying to pray, come and help”. If the heightened prayer does not go to other churches, within few months, this one church will be hit because other churches are not praying. We are in danger. Devils will come attacking and attacking. As we receive this message we must share with others around and begin to pray like Jesus asked “Pray for more laborers. The harvest is ripe but laborers are few.” We need to pray that God will raise a greater desire in people to intercede for the community and the city and nation. On personal basis don’t come against the spirits that rule over town, city, village etc. Brothers and sister even if you are too spiritual, you don’t have a legal ground there. Maybe your work will be destroyed; maybe some things in your family will be destroyed because you are touching a place where you have no authority. That is why God is calling for unity in His body. When you are united with your family it is very easy to demolish the demons coming against your family. If it is a village or
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community, it is very easy, if different families in the church come together and we pray against the spiritual ruler over the area, and in a short time you will begin to see changes taking place. When many churches join together, those people from other churches, come with the ministerial anointing from their churches and your church has ministerial anointing. When people come from different corners, they come with their anointing, and with that corporate anointing; we are ready to touch higher powers whereby only one church cannot touch. It is more powerful to have 5 people from five different churches praying together over their area than to have 500 people from one church praying over the area. Those from different churches have different ministerial anointing and therefore have a greater authority over the size of area they are ministering rather than all people coming with one type of ministerial anointing. That is why God is calling for unity. If you can just get people, especially leaders and pastors and they come from the other parts of your community or city, even two churches and then from another community in the city may be some leaders from three churches, and join up with you, even if you are not many in number,but come from different ministry coverings and different anointing, we can overcome this spirit over your community or city.Brothers and sisters, always be in unity. Please do not give up coming together from time to time. I want to tell you, don’t give up and God bless you, because you are helping each other to get more legal ground, you are helping in the spiritual realm. You are helping to get a bigger area to pray. You may think “I am weak and don’t know to pray”’ but your presence helps to make a very big aspect in authority over a bigger area. So don’t give up.Remember that as you go back alone in your family; don’t come against the spirit over your community. Don’t come against a spirit ruling a bigger area. One thing you can do, even to any level is only repentance. You can repent on behalf of your life, your family, your village, the city, the nations on behalf of Africa, America, wherever you like. You can repent and intercede to any level, but with spiritual warfare don’t go beyond your authority. That is why God is calling intercessors to come. Do you know, if you repent, even if you have not engaged in spiritual warfare, the devil is already on the run? Why? By repentance maybe for your nation, you are removing the legal ground from where the devil has been working. Repentance is a powerful weapon. Don’t just say “I wanted to come against the spirit ruling over our nation. If I am denied will never pray because I am a person of spiritual warfare.” Even if you don’t engage in spiritual warfare for the big nations, if you just repent and repent from your heart, the demons will quit and go away because you are removing their legal ground. As you repent continue to call upon the blood of Jesus. The bible says in proverbs 18:10 – the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous run into it and they are safe. Why do we do these things like cover ourselves with the blood of Jesus and hiding in the name of the Lord? Its because we have not learnt much about spiritual warfare. We will talk about every armor Paul is talking about in Ephesians 6. How can we put on every weapon? The truth, shield of faith, shoes for preaching the gospel; you need to learn these things. Before you can learn them, you will be covering yourself in the blood and under the name of Jesus so that you continue with spiritual warfare. What has brought change back in our country, is as we come to pray for our area, we get only one demon god at a time and come against it. We repent on behalf of that, then we exhaust it. We cut the covenants and then we demolish it and send it in spiritual wilderness. Then we will repent over all covenants and sacrifices that have made the spirit secure in this place. The spirit cannot rule over an area unless it has a covenant with the people. We will repent of the all blood of goats and sheep that were sacrificed. I don’t want to discourage you but do you know that in most countries, it is moslems that are given legal authority to slaughter animals? All meat is written “halal”. They first speak word of their covenant before slaughtering animals. These are covenant bonds being strengthened.. If you are non-moslem and you slaughterthat animal they say it is not halal – not fit to be eaten or sold in public. They sacrifice and that is why Islam is gaining ground in Africa and other nations. Do not forget to pray for your meat before you eat it. First repent. Don’t be afraid to have spiritual warfare because we have legal ground. First repent on behalf of your family, your life, call upon the blood of Jesus to cover you.

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Angel777 · #4 (**permalink**) 09-09-2008, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by roshan

Hi Firstly I would like to say thank you for taking the time to help me.I am currently possessed by many negative forces.I am flung to the ground,throttled etc..These entities have been pulled out in the pastbut the problem is that my body and mind had been weakened so much that they had jumped back in.There attacks continue for 24 hours.On Monday 8 pm south African timewe are going to try and pull them out again.Could you please ask god to keep all negative forces out and away from me FOR GOOD and please pray for my speedy recovery.could you also god to increase my faith in him (these events hurt it ).It is my earnest desire to become a monk and be gods instrument but these forces have tried everything to stop my spiritual progress. Thank you so much

Roshan, I have been under spiritual warfare attack for a year now. It comes and goes. So I know how you feel and what you are going through. It helps for me to stay in the WORD every waking moment. I have Christian music playing, the Bible on CD going in my car, read scripture and the Bible on line and "MEMORIZE the word" Speak it outloud. satan will flee. I am becoming stronger and stronger in my faith and knowledge of God's word. The closer I get and the harder I persist the weaker these attacks become. I had a slight one today. It causes panic attacks and anger. I have to remind myself to stop and pray. Listen to God and let the Holy Spirit do the work for me and speak through me. This is God molding me and refining me into the warrior that is capable of spreading and defending the Gospel.

Father I pray for you to pour the anointing and baptism of the Holy Spirit over Roshan. Father I pray for the fruits of the Spirit to take full control over his entire soul. Father I pray that he fills his mind with your Word. Father I pray that he gives his heart totally to Jesus. I speak the name of Jesus and the Blood of Jesus over all sins and iniquities of Roshan... over all unforgiveness, bitterness, sins, lusts, in his heart that the enemy blinds him to. I pray that his eyes be open fully to know all of his own self morally and take an inventory of his feelings and emotions and his ability to develop and show self discipline and self control from all sin and temptations from the evil one. Father God I pray you Bind satan and all demonic principalities and toss them to Jesus to be rid of forever. Father I pray you give Roshan a Renewed mind and new heart, strong faith, overflow his cup with love for you, himself, and everyone. Give him JOY unspeakable to love you and live in and under any circumstance and still feel the JOY in his heart for his love for you. Father I pray you be his strongtower and he renew his strength daily with you and he put on the full armour of God to be a warrior for Christ Jesus.

In Jesus name and the blood of JESUS I pray,

AMEN

Roshan,

Please read "Drawing Near" by John MacArthur , Jr. Google it and read it on line. It has superior info for Spiritual Warfare.

It is also very important to maintain a "balanced and consistent life" both in the word and in feeding our bodies with a well balance of sleep, food, water, vitamins, cleanliness, exercise, hard work, service, friendships, support systems, growing, positive influences, and continued support in prayer. I found the following which is also good information in this area.

To be like Him, we must discover balance in our own lives between being holy and being human. If we neglect either one, we'll tend to become emotional wrecks who are of no spiritual or earthly good.

Over the past couple of years, I've gained a new appreciation for how important emotional health is for our overall well being. God wants us to have the strength we need to handle the stress of life. That strength comes not only through prayer and spiritual disciplines, but by ensuring we have balance in our lives.

Today I'd like to share a recipe for an emotionally healthy lifestyle. I'm confident that if you add each of the following five ingredients to your life—along with your spiritual disciplines—your emotional health will improve, and you'll grow deeper in your relationship with Christ and with others.

Ingredient #1: A social support system. This includes both people and activities that enrich and recharge you, giving you the fuel you need to deal with day-to-day challenges.

Ingredient #2: Forgiveness. Being unwilling to forgive is one of the most destructive forces that can be at work within you. In fact, someone once said that refusing to forgive an offense is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die! Forgiveness, on the other hand, is a healing balm that places people and situations into the hands of God. By releasing the offense, you free yourself to move on to a brighter tomorrow.

Ingredient #3: Rest. It's amazing how much better your mind and soul feel if your body has adequate rest. Burning the candle at both ends was never part of God's plan. Our bodies, by God's design, require between seven to nine hours of rest each night. When you awake refreshed after a good night's sleep, you'll agree that sleep and relaxation are among God's greatest gifts!

Ingredient #4: Laughter. The Bible says, "a cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones" (Proverbs 17:22). In most of life's circumstances, you can choose how to react. You can either cry over spilled milk, or choose to laugh at the crazy commotion around the table as napkins appear from everywhere to clean up the mess. If you're willing to look for the lighter side of life, you'll never have to look far to find something funny.

Ingredient #5: Boundaries. You need to know when your body and mind have had enough of work, people, and serving the needs of others. In the words of that great theologian, Kenny Rogers, "You got to know when to hold 'em.", know when to fold 'em."

The needs around you will always exceed your ability to meet them. Not even Jesus met every need He encountered. On many occasions Jesus left the crowds—and all their needs—to go off on His own to pray. Jesus recognized when His physical and emotional tank was running on empty, and He went away to refresh and refuel Himself.

We need to set similar boundaries. When we're running on empty, we need to know when to walk away—and when to run—for refueling. That may mean spending time in prayer and Bible study, doing something you enjoy, or spending time with people who energize you.

I have found in the past that my spiritual warfare attacks occur when I have allowed myself to not eat properly, and then become emotionally weak and physically weak. I keep myself fed now and watered along with the staying in the word and praying without ceasing and learning new "fighter verses" each week.

God bless you and please pray for me also.

John 6: 35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.